Cultivar

B. ‘Bernice Decker’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Bernice Decker’
Originator: Bernice Decker
Date of Origin: 1973
Place: Miami, Fl.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Spaulding’
Male Parent: B. ‘Joe Hayden’
ABS No: 340
Publication Reference: B73 a088;ABS
Article References: The Begonian (40) April 1973, p. 87-89.

Plant

Description: No. 340-Begonia ('Spaulding' x 'Joe Hayden') 'Bernice Decker' A sharp-pointed star-leaved rhizomatous begonia originated by Bernice Decker, 18350 S. W. 214 St., Miami, Fl. 33157, this plant is available from Paul P. Lowe, 23045 S. W. 123 Rd., Goulds, Fla. 33170. Developed in 1969, first distributed in 1973, the plant first bloomed in 1972 in early summer, pink, on 5-inch stems. The leaf is 3" across, margin plain, texture satiny, veins green, a dull black with dark red underside. Registered Mar. 7, 1973.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Spaulding’

Male parent

B. ‘Joe Hayden’

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Bernice Decker’

Female parent

B. ‘Spaulding’

B. ‘Lillian Steinhaus’;

Female parent

B. bowerae var. bowerae

Male parent

B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

B. hydrocotylifolia Graham ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :125. 1854 pro syn. Gireoudia hydrocotylifolia (Otto ex W.J. Hooker) Klotzsch. 1854;

Male parent

B. ‘Joe Hayden’

Female parent

B. ‘Reichenheimii’

Female parent

B. ‘Fuscomaculata’

Male parent

B. heracleifolia var. heracleifolia

B. radiata Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J. :182. 1833.; B. tanacetifolia hort. ex Graham, Edinburgh New Philos. J.:182. 1833.; B. nigrescens Van Houtte ex Otto, Hamburger Garten–Blumenzeitung 8:9. 1852. —L.B. Smith & D.C. Wasshausen, Phytologia 54:469. 1984.; B. jatrophifolia hort. ex Klotzsch, Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1854 :215. 1855; Begoniac. :94. 1855. "jatrophaefolia”, pro syn. Gireoudia heracleifolia Klotzsch var. viridis Klotzsch. 1855. —A. de Candolle, Prodr. 15(1):335. 1864.; B. trigonoptera Sprague, Bull. Misc. Inform. :218. 1921;

Male parent

B. mazae var. mazae

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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